TIMELY TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 8 November 1932, Page 4

TIMELY TOPICS

HATH IN' I'OUTICS. Savs Lee Sbippey in the “ T.os Angeles Times”: —11 is perfectly astonishing what wild reports sonic of ’.is ■wilt believe about even sneh men ns Herbert. Hoover and W. ('<. AfeAdoo if they happen to be on the other team. We seem to feel it our duty to believe that everybody on our team is a perfect oift from heaven, endowed with superhuman abilities to euro all the ills

'(■F the country, while everybody on the) opposing loom is Satan in disguise. Wo feel it our duty to seize on every scandal someone lias imagined aliont our 1 opponents ami pass it along with a few 'additions. Worst of all, we seem to I , . « feel it our doty to hate. We leap into 1 ;i campaign ns we leap into a war, I fired liv stories that the fellows on the i other side are Baby murderers. And it I the forty-second cousin of any one ot !ns tells ns a story, the next time wo ! led I it we’ll add. “And F personally | know that to l.e a fact.’’ Hate is the most senseless thing that could enter into politics, so far as the average voter is concerned. We ought to go "hopping for candidates as housewives do for household gear —with appreeia■jt'mn for (lie good [mints of all Put with I linn determination to gel the Pest.